6 month old won’t eat homemade food?

[MilaMaceyRome]

So I’m a first time mum and I’ve just started to wean... attempting to wean. I’ve been pureeing sweet potato, cauliflower, cauliflower and apple, carrots, potato, broccoli, the list goes on. Same reaction every time from my 6 month old girl, purses lips and turning her head.
I decided to try out an Ella’s kitchen ouch of carrots, apple and parsnip. Wolfed down the lot.
What am I doing wrong? Why isn’t she eating my homemade purée?
Any advice will be appreciated!

Grobagsforever Wed 29-Jan-20 23:20:58
@rosydreams

o noo no no i didn't mean low fat products i just meant when your cooking use less fat or soak up mince grease with a paper towel.That mince beef was 15% fat in her spaghetti,she has whole milk in her porridge and full fat kids yogurts and cheese.I know these are vital for development i just meant not soaking in grease

I never pureed anything. Steamed till soft. Never bought any baby food either. Food isn't a big deal at that age.

I just made pancakes for breakfast and gave DD some strips and she loved it! Didn't all go in but she is patting her tray now looking for more! Sod the purées from now on 🙂

Wow so many replies haha! Thank you everyone. I think most of my issue is the amount of pressure I’ve received from my family, and in-laws. They’ve all been stressing the importance of purées in itself and her eating food in general, I’ve had a lot of criticism about not starting her on food earlier but she just hasn’t been interested. Obviously I need to just chill out and have fun with it and take it as it comes. Very happy to abort on purées, I’ll steam veg instead and do finger food and let her do as she pleases! Hopefully that works better

She’s your baby OP and you know her the best. Sod anyone else and their opinion! Practise some easy responses like “that’s interesting...” then look away, or “aww, I’m letting her take the lead, but thanks” when people start on at you. FWIW I found weaning a total stressful pain in the arse to start with. Couldn’t for the life of me get wtf was supposedly so exciting about it. The mess, the gagging, the mess, how much harder it was than putting the baby to the boob, the awful mess. But by trusting my instincts and lobbing a chunk of bread at her then some veg sticks, then dusting off the bamboo steamer we had on a shelf etc we found our rhythm and it’s second nature now. By chance she’s spoon fed her breakfast, usually porridge (1/4 cup oats, 1/2 cup milk, boil, cool, serve) or Greek yogurt mixed with mashed banana, and feeds herself lunch and supper. I now don’t care how much mess she makes of herself or the high chair or floor as she’s so happy chomping away on all sorts of things. I buy loads of extra stuff I know she likes - we go through 3 cucumbers and about 8 bananas a week - and other than that she has what we’re having and I’ve learned to cook everything without salt. I peaked at crunchiness by making her salt free hummus, which I’m happy to say she loves but everything else is just easy, cheap, healthy, as varied as possible and she has a special series of happy food faces I love which I couldn’t have imagined in a million years the first week when I lovingly presented her with salt free mash mixed with breast milk and she turned her head away in understandable disgust

There’s no rush at all. She won’t be eating 3 meals a day within a fortnight but she will in her own time and this is the first step to her learning what she likes, how it feels and tastes, what solid food is all about.

I’m sure you’re all kitted up but I found a super easy to clean high chair makes a huge difference as do decent bibs and love these www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07L1LDCX4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IQZmEb690SXY7?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

@AnneLovesGilbert
Thanks for your reply! I’ll definitely do those responses 😂, can’t help but doubt myself sometimes when they always make comments, especially when this is my first time doing all of this. Also I totally agree, weaning really isn’t exciting- more so that she hasn’t been enjoying the food!! All that effort for nothing haha!
I’m trying steamed broccoli and carrots today and going to see how she feels about those. I’ve been trying her on baby porridge too but I’d been following the instructions on the tin (mix with warm water) but maybe I’d have more success with mixing it with milk too? Lots of trial and error really isn’t it. I’ll be glad when I figure out what she likes and get into our own rhythm like you say!